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Book

Blue water, red metal & green gold : the color of Michigan's past

Call Number

  • H 977.4 M417.11 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Allegan Forest, Mich. : The Priscilla Press, [2014]

Physical Description

xii, 288 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm

Contents

  • Blue water graveyard
  • Red metal bonanza
  • Green gold grows again
  • 1811: the summer Mackinac Island lay silent
  • The buzz about bees
  • What may not Michigan aspire to become?
  • The real McCoy
  • The fate of the Michigan
  • Greedy politicians, slave hunters, rattlesnakes & big bread
  • Vile preachers and blottoed braves: a Boston Brahmin in Michigan
  • The Gunnisons of Grand Rapids
  • A French Prince tours Michigan
  • Rawson does the rocks
  • A Detroit pastor in the Holy Land
  • On the Road to Wellville
  • Trapped by the letter "S"
  • A "red-blood" writer, Stewart Edward White
  • Lake Michigan's floating Gomorrah
  • Street crosses the state
  • Win one for the Gipper
  • Maize & blue & poetry too
  • Of rum runners & cop killers
  • The Ford Massacre of 1932
  • Meet the Cases of Dearborn
  • When wounded veterans thronged Battle Creek
  • A tale of two brothers
  • Home, home on the road.

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